Rick Riordan Quotes

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.

Public opinion is not always mistaken; sometimes even it chooses the right man.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

(The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.

I'm not going to talk about supporting somebody for a long time. I don't know who the two party candidates are going to be.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

You never know. It started with me in Louisiana when I won Louisiana and I got fewer delegates than Ted Cruz. I win a state, I get fewer votes. Then, I poll great in Colorado and all of a sudden . . . the voters aren't going to choose. The bosses are going to choose. Anything is possible.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.

You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

I don't have any problem with the right candidate [for presidency]. And so whoever I believe is going to be the best for that office - and the most qualified - is the reason that we put them in that position.

...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections.

Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

There are so many candidates, so it's very hard to get over that number. It's very unfair, in a we are - but because of the fact that there's so many candidates and so many candidates are grabbing delegates.

Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.